Month: January 2009

The first call for papers for BachoTeX 2009 arrived in the UK-TUG Committee inbox this week. BachoTeX 2009 — Call for Papers Dear TeXies, TeX friends and lovers of fine typography — This is an invitation to BachoTeX 2009, the XVIIth Polish TeX Users Group Conference. As usual, it will be held at the traditional TeXies’ and GUST meeting place, Bachotek near Brodnica, in the north-east of Poland, from April…

Jonathan Fine, current UK-TUG Chairman, was recently interviewed for the TUG Interview Corner. Jonathn joins former chairmen of UK-TUG Robin Fairburns and Philip Taylor as subjects of the interview series.

The Committee are slowly organising older information on the web server, which is not currently visible. The first set of useful files to be sorted out are slides from the 2006 Living and Working with LaTeX workshop. The following slides are available: Jonathan Fine: Avoiding problems, Solving problems, Asking for help, and the handout version Peter Flynn: Sorry, Professor, the dog ate my thesis, and the handout version Nicola Talbot:…

The Committee is pleased to announce that Jonathan Webley has been co-opted. His interested in TeX stems from involvement with Project Gutenberg, and their efforts to make out-of-copyright texts available to all. He is currently working on Elements of the differential and integral calculus by William Anthony Granville, and says: With LaTeX, even an idiot like me can produce beautiful pages stuffed full of integrals and partial differentials, with the…

Writing a thesis in LaTeX is an area that many people seek help with. The UK-TUG Committee is keen to help students, particularly those in the UK, find the resources they need. The training pages include a lot of useful links. In particular, the thesis page includes links to various thesis templates for UK universities. A couple of general sites deserve a highlight, as both include very good general advice…

The University of Cambridge has a LaTeX course for beginners in February (10th and 11th) and a practical session (13th); the course is aimed at students and staff at the university. Thanks to LaTeX for Humans for this information.